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L mt S .YKE. Eftiler »nd Pu&ltsSer HteKRNRT ILTjTN'OTS HEATHEN BY THE DOZEN CAUGHT ON A CANADIAN BAROE AND JAiLBD. DM In a Dea *olnc* Hotel-Idaho Indians OIMMC to an Irrigating Ditch--Fhotor- ntphy Bwwli Wreck. 2$ : 2"-" ' " w- •,f! • fK- - ^ s>* 4 ' St-;-V; . $ Ifc/- 'XC nC h;i% ; I®, V* > i K'N • t'A.l Sna)t|[lliiR China by H. Tw hpy, Deputy Collector in ffeftrge of Bonaventuro Dopot, has ob­ served a great number of Chinamen taking the cars for St. Johns, St. Hilaire. and other points at or near the Richelieu River. Suspecting a smug­ gling scheme, he notified E. 0. Vankirk, Special Customs Inspector At Rouse's Point, N. Y., and the two went to work. Thuisday after­ noon the Canadian barge A. Gravel, Capt. Amos Hamel. from Sorel, bound to Albany, N. Y., was seized. On ex­ amination iully a dozen Chinamen wero found stowed away in the hold, all of whonf, together with the captain of the barge, were taken into custody and lodged in P attsbura Jail. It is said at Montreal that three Canadians managed the scheme, and that they were to re­ ceive $50 a head for every Celestial landed in the United Sta'es. Had Sever Seen Gaslight,. LIZZIE STEVEXS, of Missouri, Kan., was found dead in her room at a Des Moines, Iowa, hotel Friday morn­ ing. She arrived the night before and blew out the gas. Her son, a<.ed 27, occupied an adjoin'ng room. He had also blown out the ga«, but an open transom saved his life. He said when he recovered -that neither he nor his mother had ever seen gaslights before. To Set Aside Transfers and Mortgages. AT Mankato, Minn., three suits wero brought in the District Court by George "W. Mead, assignee of the J. Q. A. Marsh estate, against George S. Marsh, A- J. Morrieon, and Maude Stannard for sums aggregating nearly $60,000. They are actions to set aside transfers and mort­ gages on real estate alleged to have been made shortly before the failure last November. Host Valuable Cargo Ever Received. THE steamer €>ceanic, which arrived from Hong Kong, via Yokohama, brings the mogt valuable cargo that ever came to San Francisco. It is valued at $3,000,0000. Of that amount $2,000,000 ie represented by silks, <nd the re­ mainder by tea and general merchan- BREVIT1ES. $1" Wk- PBESIDENT PENA, ol the Argentine Republic, has laken the cath of office, and formed a ministry. LONDON Protestants are circulating a petition asking the Queen to depose Lord Mayor Knill because he Is a Catholic. FOTTB negrms have been lyn hed in Monroe County, Alabama. They hai confessed to murdering a farmer and his daughter. JOHN H. CAMP of Lyons, N. Y., Is dead. He was an ex-Congressman and one ot the moet prominent Republtoans of the State. Two FBEIGHT trains collided on the New London and Northern Railroad, near New London, Conn., and four men were killed in the wreck. THE larger creditors of Poor & 5?on, leather manufacturers, of Boston, have agreed to an extension. The liabilities are placed at $230,000, and the assets $100,000 more. TBAIX robbers held up a Missouri Pa­ cific train near Caney, Kan., and rjbbed the Pacific Express Company's car of a small amount of money after wounding the messenger in the arm. AT the election in Gloucestershire Colonel Masters, the Conservative can- didate, -was victorious by a majority of three. This reduces Mr. Gladstone's majority in the House of Commons to thirty-nine. PBESIDENT CABXOT has bestowed the cross of the Legion of Honor on Henry Harris, 8. E., the eminent American writer, who is at present a resident of Paris. This distinction was conferred on Mr. Harris in recognition of his pro­ found and scholarly literary works on the 'life, discoveries, and times of Co­ lumbus. A TBOOPBH and a corporal in the British life guards were tried before a 'court-martial for offenses connected •with the mutiny of squadron C at Wind­ sor. The trooper confessed his culpa­ bility and asked for mercy. The cor­ poral, who had alieady leen deprived of his extra post as canteen steward, was discharged from the service. A VEBY faint comet was disccvred by Professor E. E. Barnard at Lick Observatory Wednesday night by pho­ tography. Visual observations show / the comet to be about one minute in diameter. It is of the thirteenth magni­ tude and is moving southeast 1 degree 40 minutes daily. This is the iiist comet discovered by the aid of pho­ tography. THE Kcotenai Indians in Idaho threaten to make serious trouble on ac­ count of the diking of the Kootenai River by an English company. The other day a band of twenty Indians, all fully armed, went to the workmen and demanded that they quit work on the dike. The agent went on the ground and tried to settle the matter, but so far has not succeeded. The Indians say they will shoot any one who at­ tempts to resume work. CHARLES BOBBEIN & Co., dealers in Musical merchandise at Detroit, have made an assignment. THE search for the bodies at the Sterling Run colliery has revealed the tact that five miners were killed by the explosion. HENHY B. RTDEB, formerly United States Consul at Copenhagen, who was arrested some time ago for frauds in connection with the administration of estates entrusted to him in his official capacity, has been released upon giving ;y, Ui3 sum of $ j.ooo. Ike tan»ao exploded. ^ John Dllling*. h 15-year-old boy, was standing near, • piece of tin from the torpedo flew nd cut him In the neck, severing the jugular vein. He bled to death. THE surface of the ground above the Central mine at Scranton, Pa., is sink* Ing to such an extent that the new Catholic Church, valued at $100,000, and the adjoining orphanage are in danger of being engulfed. THE t-cet exhibition of tight-rope walking Wiagara has ever seen was given Wednesday over the gorge by Clifford Calverley, a young Canadian. To the surprise of all,' instead of step­ ping carefully, he ran. It took him six minutes and eight seconds to cross from bank to bank, which is more than six minutes quicker than the trip has ever been made. After teaching the American shore Calverley again stepped cn the slender cable, and going out a short distance there performed feats common with men in the same business. He laid on the wire, hung by his toes, and did other similar acts. Re­ turning to the American shore, he en­ tered a carriage and was driven across the Suspension Bridge to the Canadian end of his oablo. This was his first experience over water. Calverley is a i>ne-looking fellow, is 'i2 years old, and was born in Clarksburg,a smalltown in the Province of Ontario. May 2 last Caverley performed his first feat on the wire. AT Baiiston, X. Y., Justice Stover, of the Circuit Court, refuses naturalization to aliens who cannot read and write the English language, and has rejected six applicants. One of the applicants, a native of County Kent, England, is more than CO years of age and has been resident of this country for twenty- five years. Justice Stover said: "It's no use to make such applications. I will not admit to citizenship in courts at whii-h I preside appli­ cants who cannot read and write the English language. Every citizen should be able to read and write. An a'ien asking naturalization must have these qualifications before I will grant to him a certificate of citizenship. He should be able to read the Constitution of the United States Before he is asked or al­ lowed to take the oath of citizenship, and I intend to adhero to the rule, whether, as in this case, the applicant speaks the English language as his mat her tongue, or whether he is a sub­ ject of one of the continental nations ignorant of our language, our < ustoms, erf our Constitution and our laws." WESTERN. IMP THE milk caused the violent ill­ ness of thirty-five inmates of the Indi­ ana Institute for Deaf and Dumb at Indianapolis. VICTOR S. SEWARD, the veteran ed­ itor of the Stillwater (Minn.) Messenger, was shot and probably fa'ally wounded l.y a discharged reporter. EMMETT DAIITOX, thought to have been mortally wounded in the fight at Coffeyville, Kan., in which his three bortherswere killed, is in a fair way to recover. AT Denver, Col., it began snowing at 11 o'clock Thursday night and continued until morning. Reports from throughout i he State indicate that a light enow fell. PiiAss for the consolidation of the Colorado Coal and Iron Company' and the Colorado Fuel Company, both cor­ porations having offices in Denver, are nearly completed. A PASSENGER and freight train on the Rio Grande collided near Cotopaxi, Col. Express Messengers Gallaway and Self were seriously injured, and Brakemen Young and As'ee of the freight badly bruised. The avcident wai caused by the mistake of an operator. AT Cleveland, Ohio, the cable sup­ porting the elevator at the Doan apart­ ment house parted. Six persons were injured. There were six women and a boy in the elevator. It fell four stories to the basement and was smashed. One woman escaped uninjured and walked away. CHESTER GRIESSEMER, a real-estate broker of Tacoma, Wash., died Sunday at the Philadelphia Hospital from the supposed effects of opium poisoning that it is believed was administered to him in a low lodging-house at 425 Spruce street. Grieseemer reached Philadelphia Friday, and fell into the company of a notorious thief named Hugh McDevitt, who undertook to show him the town. McDevitt and a woman named Eberting are under arrest. BOISE, Idaho, special: The final move­ ment for the speedy opening of the Nez Perces Indian Reservation was made Tuesday^ In response Xo a telegram requesting- it Senator Dubois sent a telegram to Secretary Noble recom­ mending the appointment of Robert Sckleiseher of Lie wis ton member ot the commission to make the arrange­ ments with the Indians. Mr. Schleischer is a capable business man fully ac­ quainted with" the Nez Perces Indians and much interested in the spee Jy open­ ing of the reservation. It is one of the richest reservations in Idaho and will result in the cultivation of valuable acres. MILLIONS of grasshoppers have made their appearance -in the country around St. Joseph, Mo., and the wheat crop threatens to be a total failure In conse­ quence. The young blades of wheat are eaten off so close to the ground that it dies at the root, and in many cases the fields have already been plowed under. The continuous warm, dry weather has hatched out young hoppers until the fields are brown with them, and unless a cold rain or frost kills them off thousands of dollars' worth or damage will be done. Fourteen coun­ ties in Missouri report to the State Sec­ retary of the Board of Agriculture that the Insects are so numerous that they are causing alarm to the farmers. In many parts of Kansas they are said to be threatening to destroy many acres of wheat. If £&%?£• . EASTERN. ADA GALLAGHER, A variety actress, "fatown On the stage as Ada Deaves, committed suicide at Philadelphia by cutting her throat with a razor. ENGINEER SCHAFPER and Fireman Johnston of a switching engine at the Bllnes of the New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company, near Pittsburg, Pa,, were smothered by the foul air in a tunnel. / ' SOME one placed, a railroad torpedo *nder an engine in the Erie yards at started kas, tfcrottgh a lawyer, m«<io a demtnt on Ms relatives for his share of his de­ ceased father's estate, amounting te ahout $7,000. THE London pugilist, Charles Mitchell, Or, as he registered, Charles Smith, was sent to Holloway Jail for two months' hard labor at the Bow Street Polioa Court for a brutal assault on George Salvage, an aged Strand lodging-houw keeper. Alter the assault Mitchell paid Salvage $60 to evade prosecution. In sentencing Mitchell the Magistrate re- fused to give him the option of paying a fino. The police officials testified that the pugilist was a most dangerous man. Several convictions of assault were proven against him. After sen­ tence he asked the court if he "called this British justice." The court said that Mitchell and his class were worth­ less and a menace to society. On his way to court Mitchell was hissed by the crowd. IN O: Ex-PJtEui:;a MEBCiEB,,<of Quebec, has been indicted. Conspiracy in con­ nection with railway subsidies is the charge. SECRETARY FOSTER has notified the members of the International Monetary Conference to be ready to sail for Europe Nov. 10. The conference will meet in Brussels Nov. 22. DURING the twelve months ending Oct. 11, an even dozen of the 200 Glou­ cester fishing vessels have been lost at sea. Fortunately none of these disas­ ters have been attended by loss of life, but fifty-eight lives" have been lost through accidents by men being washed overboard and going adrift in dories. The total money loss wiil amount to something like $78,000. Last year sev­ enteen vessels and seventy-eight lives wore lost. The valuation w»3 $89,00(fcr ALICE GRANGER, school teacher at Chatham, Ont., has of late been greatly worried by the behavior of several boys in'her school. Two of the bad boys were sons of members of the school board, and she could obtain no relief. At iast she attempted to beat Harry Bortling with a rattan, but other boys came to his assistance, and they black­ ened her eyes. She at once closed the school, went home, and poisoned heij- self with morphine. In her hand was found this note: "I am tired of trying to teach bad boys. * A REWARD of $1,000 has been offered for information as to the whereabouts of William Bick, who was last seen ilk Western Minnesota seven years ago, and who Is now believed to be in Si Paul. He is wanted to assist in decid­ ing the ownership of an immense sum of money now nn the hands of the Ad­ ministrator General and Accountant General of India. The fortune was left by Bick's grandfather, William Bruce, an Englishman, who went to India fifty years ago and became wealthy in trade. The s'ory is rone antic in the extreme. All attempts to find Bick have thus fai proved futile. A MOB of French Canadians Saturday night and Sunday morning stoned the residence of Col. Nicholas Smith, United States Consul at Three Rivers, Que. Every window in the house was smashed, and Col. Smith had to barricade every entrance to pre­ serve himself from the fury of the mob. Col. Smith lately sent a re­ port of the sanitary condition of Three Rivers to Washington, denouncing in the most bitter terms the habits of the French-Canadians. When the report reached Three Rivers the fury of the citizens knew no bounds and an assault on CoL Smith's house was immediately planned. At the present time the house is continually guarded by a cordon oi police to prevent Its being wrecked by the citizens. The most disastrous storm that La Guayra, Venezuela, has experienced in forty years swept down the Silla de Caracas Mountain Sunday night. There were fome terrific landslides and many houses were wrecked. It is feared that there has been a great lose of life. Only meager detaile have so far been obtained, but It is known that the mountain railroad which connects La Guayra with Caracas has been completely destroyed. All communication with Caracas is cut off. The late acting President and hie Cabinet, who have been in hiding at La Guyara since Gen. Crespo and his forces captured Caracas, have been taken to the Island of Curacoa, where they can­ not be reached by the insurgents. They were conveyed thither by the Spanish and French warships. THE Canadian Pacific Navigation Company's steamer Premier was struck by the steam collier Willamette in s dense fog off Whidby Island, about ten miles south of Port Townsend, in Puget Sound, Sunday afternoon. Four per­ sons were killed, one drowned, and seventeen badly wounded. The steam tug Goiiah reached Seattle with three of the dead, all of the wounded, and the other passengers, after having spent several hours In the attempt to save from the wreck the body of an unknown passenger wedged in there. The Premier sunk in twenty- four feet of water. It will cost $50,000 to raise it. The steamship Premier was an old and well-known boat of the Ca­ nadian Pacific Navigation Company. It was built at San Francisco in 1887, was of 1,080 gross and 602 net tonnage, 200 feet long, 42 feet beam, and 12 feet 9 inches depth. It was a screw propeller. GRANDEST CELEBRATION SEEN IN THI9 COUNTR fhonsatHftk «r Bntfin<ta*t!e VUlton the 8<r«*|ft ft the SMltta Xttroyotll- luiponlai PaMrte or school children-- Great Spectacular Pagaan tltnrwki, Kte. Za cwambus* The city of New York did the hand* some thing by the memory of Column bus, and did it right well. The Jews inaugurated the celebration on Saturfc day, their Sabbath, with song and ser­ mon in their synagogues, of both which' the subject-matter was Columbus ana the discovery of America. On Sunday Protestants and Catholics followed it up in their churches and cathedrals with religious services. Interspersed with tho Singing and playing of National hyn.ns --and where can the "Star Spangled Banner" be heaid more appropriately than in the church. Monday was the schools' day. and school children of the public, private, and parochial schools marched by thou­ sands through the gaylv decorated streets. In the evening Mr, S. G, Pratt's innocent cantata, "The Triumph of' Columbus," was song at one hall/ There were concerts in other halls, a loan exhibition, and a display of fire­ works at the East River bridge. Tues­ day the great naval parade took place, in which American, French, Spanish, and Italian war vessels, the naval mili­ tia ot the State of New York, municipal StUkHk& place in the harbor In com the Columbian exercises. Prom dawn the waters of the harbor, the bay end the broad channel of tike Hudson were literally aUve with craft of all sorts and sizes, from the small yachts trimmed and draped with gay flags and bunting, forming ever-changing pictures as they darted to and fro in confuting maze, to the big steamers with their gorgeous m THE MEMORIAL ARCH. NEW YORK'S COM7MBPS MONUMENT. boats, yachts, steamboats, ferryboats, tugs, and revenue (utters all took part, proceeding from the lower bay up through the narrows amid the salutes of the forts, and thencc up the North River to a point opposite Gen. Grant's tomb. In the evening there was a parade of the Roman Catho­ lic societies, the German singing socle- ties gave a concert, the Catholic socie­ ties had memorial celebration, and there were displays of fireworks on the Breoklyn bridge and in«the parks. Wednesday was the culmination of thes pageant. In the morning there was a military parade with 20,000 men in line, including troops of the regular army, the naval brigade, State guards, the Grand Army of the Republic, volunteer firemen, German-American societies, and Italian military organizations. In the afternoon the Columbus monument, of which an illustration is given, was dedi­ cated and in the evening there was an historical parade, during which the city was splendidly illuminated. Thursday the ceremonies closed with a banquet at the Lenox Lyceum, at which the ora-s tors did their part towards the apotheo­ sis of Christopher Columbu?, notwith­ standing Ihe declaration of Mr. Ward McAllister, arbiter of New York "sas- siety," that Christopher was not a gen­ tleman because he did not wear a swal­ low-tail coat, play polo, go coaching, chase the anine-sced bag, and guzzle champagne. Tha Eastern metropolis rose to the I decorations of flags and steamers that t slowly threaded their way among the L swarms of little boats that surrounded i them on all sides. Commodore Erben gave the signal to start. A stir of preparation followed in the squadron, a puff of smoke came from Fort Hamilton, then a crash and the firing began. Boom! Boom! Boom! The peaceful bombardment sounded like a naval combat, with all creation as contestants. The Italian, French and Spanish vessels joined in the fun. The dynamite cruiser V esuvius added its crashing detonation; even the revenue cutters with their toy cannons took ^ hand. Steaming steadily up-stream the myriad fleet came in view of the Battery. If the people ashore were surprised at the size of the naval dem­ onstration, the voyegors of the fleet were astounded at the multitudes gath­ ered along the water's edge. The park at the Battery, Brooklyn bridge, the housetops, business blocks, even thb very steeples, were black with specta­ tors. Moving up the stream the same feature presented itself. Every pier had its swarm of sight-seers; every warehouse roof was a vantage point. Cross-trees of vessels at their moor­ ings, telegraph poles, ferryboats, drays, abandoned hulks, ail were pressed into the public strvice. Incrediblo ds it may^seern in the state­ ment, not less than a million people must have seen the parade trom both shores between its slart at the forts and the grand review at Riverside. Old New-Yorkers declared that no such popular interest in any demonstration has e\ er been seen in the history of the city. When the Bquadron of the naval re­ serve formed in line about the Grant tomb it was a signal for the final review. The flag-ship dropped her anchor and S ruAwcf CAR or ILIBKJtTr I m am THB PREHISTORIC CAS. MARKET REPORTS. SOUTHERN. GEORGE C. GEER, who was engineer of the Monitor in her engagement with the rebel ram Merrimac in Hampton Roads, died at Charleston, S. C., this week. M. J. O'BRIEN of Chattanooga, who, as Supreme Treasurer of the Catholic Knights of America, is charged with embezzling $76*000, was arrested in Philadelphia. MILUHY BROtiei, aged 15, and John Williams, both colored, were hanged at Spartansburg. S. C. The girl killed an infant and the man murdered the Mayor of the town. . . FOREIGN. **$ - 4' v-tf , iih.W v THE anniversary of the death of Charles Stewart Parnell was observed in Dublin in a most impressive manner. THIS year's wheat crop of the British islands amounted to 56,325,500 bushels, against 74,742,700 bushels last year. The average per acre was 24\ bushels. IN order to obtain money for his de­ fense, Dr. Xeill Cream, formerly of Quebec, now on trial in Lom'on, Eng., f charged with a multiplicity of murders, CHICAGO. CATTLE- -Common to Prime. HOGS--Shipping Grade# SHEEP--Fair to Cholcc WHEAT--No. 2 Spring CORN--No. A OATS--No. 2 RYE--No. 2 BUTTEK--Choice Creamery EGGS--Fresh POTATOES--New, per TRO INDIANAPOLIS. CATTLE--Shipping Hoos--Choice Light SHEEP--Common to Prime... WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COBN--No. .1 White OATS--No. 2 White ST. LOU1& ATTLE OOS HEAT--Net Bed CORN--No. A OATH--No. A RYE--No. 2 CINCINNATI. CATTLE HOGS TIHEEP * WHEAT--No. 2 Bed COKN--No. A OATS--No. 2 Mixed KTE--No. a DETBOIT. CATTLE. HOOK SHEEP WHEAT--N®. 2 Red. CftiK--So. 2 Yellow OA'i'tt--No. 2 White ... TOLEDO. WHEAT--No. 2 COBN--No. 2 White , OATS--No. t White BUFFALO'.*** CATTLE--Common to Prime.... J-* oos--Best Grades WHEAT--NQ. L Hard COBN--No. 2 MILWAUKEE. WHEAT--Na 2 Spring, COBN--No. 8 ...i OATS--No. 2 White... KYE--No. 1--........ JUBLKY--No. I'OKK--MeM & 5.26 S.00 # 4.75 8.00 & 5.75 8.00 <*4 5.00 .735*1® .H}{ M .47 JSMt® .34 H .60 & .60 5i 3.00 & 4.50 3.00 (a) 5.50 8.00 04 6.00 .74 ̂ .76?| .47 .35!! occasion. The arrangements seem to have been perfect. The decorations of the city were magnificent and the crowds in attendance immense. It is esti­ mated by the press that not less than 500,000 strangers were in the city dur­ ing the three days of actual celebration. This is a hint to Chicago of the number it may be called to provide for at the actual opening of the Columbian Ex­ position. Parade of School Children. Ihe great parade of school children' in which, according to telegraphic reports, nearly 20,000 participated, served to demonstrate the patriotism of the ris­ ing generation. As an. object lesson showing the tremendous Interest cen­ tered in the schools it was a phenom­ enal success. From the wee tot In his first knickerbockers who came first to the college student in mortar board and gown who olosed the spectacle, it was a series of climaxes driving home the value of the schools to the city, the State, and the nation. Th*) Catholic pupils alone, with their significant ban­ ner, "The Defender of the Faith and the Constitution;" the Indian students from Carlisle, Pa., magnificently disci swung round in the tide. Ht r followers did likewise, and the merchant fleet steamed past in review up the river, saluting wilh dipped flags. Forming in parallel lines the parade then dropped down the stream, the battleships pealed forth a farewell salute, while a regiment of regulars ashore answered with a land battery and the national hymn wag played by a regiment band. The last shot marked the close or the parade. The greatest naval spectacle of the great city had ended and the journey home began. Tugs whistled, steamers ,1oined in, railroad whistles answered from the shore and the orderly lines bcoke up, making for the piers down the river. "Vice President Morton, Chauncy M. Depew, ex-President Hayes, Governor Flowtr, Mayor Grant, and other nota­ bles, were cn the Howard Carroll, which led the way. Ex-President Cleve­ land and his wife were the guests of E. C. Benedict on his private yacht, the Corsair. Klre Di*pli»v of Klrework*. The fireworks display on the Brooklyn Bridge began at 10:30 and lasted until midnight. The display was gorgeous. There were illuminations lrom the towers in the shape of Chinese suns six feet in circumference, and of an ilium- nating power which enabled them to be seen at a distance of twenty-live miles. There were groups of bouquets and thousands of rockets fired simul­ taneously from the towers, crossing and intersecting in their iiight. Millions of TOLTEC SUIT WORSHIPER 4. .76 & M n 8.00 4,00 M Mi .70 9 AH <& XV NEW YOBK. CATTLB. Hoos Sheep WHEAT--No. 2 Red. COBS--No. 2 OATS--Mixed Western Y« Buxi'jyB--Creamery HP WM... .04 1L23 .76 .45 H .33?! .5# 5.26 6.00 .86 .49 .70* .43 i .34 * & .60 & .65 @11.7 5 I POBX--New fdined and drilled; colored pupils touch-ng elbows with white boys; Italians, Japanese, Chinese, Irish--all marched shoulder to shoulder in the enormous educational columns, and all under the stars t nd stripes. In the minds of the beholders the im- pressiveness of the occasion centered upjn the union of these diverse forces in the one patriotic purpose--honor to Columbus and the Goverment his dis­ covery made possible. The column took more than three hours to pass a given point. While the line of march of the parade was banked on either side by crowded masses from the starting point to the disbanding point, the greatest numbers congregated in Madison square, Union square and Washington square. The west side of Fifth avenue at Madison square was occupied by an immense stand with 3,200 seats. Of these 200 seats were reserved for reporters and each seat was furnished with a writing d 'Sk. Opposite was a stand that seated <5,000 persons. Among those seated there were Vice President Morton, Sec­ retary of the Treasury Foster, (Jov. R. P. Flower and his staff, Gov. Tillman, ot South Carolina, United Marshal Jacobus and many local officials. The Naval l>!*p!njr. New York has had three big naval parades in recent years, but neither one Qf these as a maritime demonstration oeuld compare in splendor and magnifi- magnesium stars of the spreading va­ riety and of the largest ca'iber w^re fired skyward from mortars a distance of 800 leet. Hundreds of thousands of marched j men and women were out to see the ' wonders. The celebration culminated in the night pageattfc, which was the spectacu­ lar event of the week. Eighteen thou­ sand people, costumed to represent the var:o:is types to be illustrated, were In line. The noats shown in this parade were the finest ever seen, and altogether the affair was th« greatest o? the kind ever attempted in this country. Sow tlte Pkmaw Invention Waa«M*gm*«l *o » Imntg Maehanie. ^ The air brake was A creature of George We6tinghouse*s youth; he had invented it before he was 21 years of age, and nearly a quarter of acentury ha* passed since he saw his iuvention applied with success to a railway train. It has gone upon recoid as one of the great achievements. The air brake was suggested to him on the inspiration of the moment, but that is oot infrequently the beginning of great inventions. The suggestion of the divisibility of the electric cur­ rent came to Edison one summer Sun­ day afternoon as he stood with Prof. Barker, of the University of Pennsyl­ vania, watching a majestic piece of mcchanism in operation at the Wal­ lace works in Ansonia. The hint of the telephone was received in an in­ stant almost by Bell, and the sugges­ tion of the quadruplex telegraph came to Edison, as he once said, "be­ tween two thoughts." Ericsson re­ ceived the hint of the screw propeller as he watched a flsh swimming in a quiet pool, and th3 New York Sun says Westinghouse had the first sug­ gestion of the air brake while in a railway accident His train was brought to a stand­ still and they told him that a collis­ ion had occurred, and then it seemed to him that it should be possible to invent some mechanical appliance which would give an engineer;, com­ mand of a train such AS he dlci not possess in the use of the throttle and the reversing lever. He turned this idea over in his mind and, being skill­ ful with hands and having the capacity of the Inventor, he con­ structed in a little while the first model of the air brake. It happened that not long afterward he was in Chicago and he met an inventor who thought that to him had come the in­ spiration for the perfect brake, and hadlsuch faith in this inspiration that he had worked it out and had secured patents for his design. Westinghouse said: "I, too. have a scheme for a railway brake which will enable the engineer of a train to apply the brake from the engine to the last car and will bring a tram to a standstill in faf less time than the hana brake now in use can do." •'Ah, but," the older inventor said, "you cannot make a brake which will do thess things without infringing upon my patents." "I can and will ," replied young Westinghouse, and within a year he had done his work and found himself a famous man. The N«wa Aftermath. # OMAHA, Neb., is suffering from a flood Of bogus dollars. JOHN TOLLIVER was killed by a shock from a "live" wire at Indianapolis. BOTH WELL BROS.' shingle mttl, at Seattle, Wash., burned. Loss, $30,000. MYRIADS of grasshoppers have ap­ peared in Kansas and arc destroying the winter wheat. CHABLES G. SETMOTJB, 80 years of age, one of the oldest and most re­ spected citizens of Aurora, 111., died from injuries sustained in an accidental fall a year or more ago. DR. ANT> MRS. DUDLEY, the venerable parents of Col. W. W. Dudley, narrowly escaped suffocation in the Strathmore Arms, a Washington boawli*|g The Are did little damage, v v. % Czar and Sentry. • j Many stories have been told of the Russian peasant's loyalty to the Czar. That not even this inherited rever­ ence should be able to ciuse IT breach of routine duty is a remarkable proof of the force of military training and discipline. pne day last winter a member of tne Czar's family told him that the sentinel stationed at a certain rail­ road crossing in St. Petersburg had refused, although the next train was not due for five minutes, to raise the bars for his carriage, declaring that he had strict orders to allow no ve­ hicle to cross until the train had passed. The Czar commented the sentry's conduct, and remarked that strict discipline was the very life of the army. His kinsman replied, with a laugh, that had the Czar himself driven up to* the crossing, discipline would surely have given away before the imperial presence. The Czar declared that he would put the matter to a test, and a day or two later he pre- sent?d himself, with the Czarina, at the crossing, at a moment when the bars were lowered before the passing of a train. The sentinel declined to raise them. He was commanded to open the gate by the express authority of his Maj­ esty. But, although -perplexed and troubled by the dilemma, he stood firm, and answered that he could not disobey orders. When the colloquy reached this stage the train rolled by, and the Czar, laughing heartily, gave the sol­ dier a twenty-five rouble note, and praised him for his adherence to duty. How the Difficulty wu Met. A good story is told of an Western judge. A man was indicted for burglary, and the evidence on the trial showed that his burglary con­ sisted in cutting a hole through a tent in which several persons were sleep­ ing, and then inserting his head and arm through the hole, and abstract­ ing various articles of value. It was claimed by his counsel that, inasmuch as he never actually entered the tent with his whole body, he had not com­ mitted the offense charged, and must therefore be discharged. The judge, in reply to this plea, told the jury that if they were not satisfied that the whole man was involved in the crime,they might bring in a verdict of guilty against so much of him as was thus involved. The jury, after a brief consultation, found the right arm, the right shoulder, and the head of the prisoner guilty of the offence of burglary. The judge sentenced the right arm. the right shoulder, and the head to imprisonment with hard la­ bor in the State prison for two years, remarking that, as to the rest of the man 's body, he might do with it what he pleased. Turned the Tide of Election. Some of the parliamentary contests in the recent elections in England turned on very insignificant incidents. This was particularly the case in the defeat of Capt. Penton, which was brought about by A child which un­ luckily sprawled beneath a passing carriage and received slight injuries. The carriage belonged to a lady who was conveying three voters to the polls and who on observing the acci­ dent took the youngster upon the seat and drove to a neighboring hos­ pital. It was then late in the after­ noon and by the time the carriage reached the polls they had closed. So close was the voting that these three ballots would have made the RACE^be­ tween Capt. Penton aud the Parsee merchant who DEFEATED him a dead heat, to be decided by the returning ttfflcer's casting vote.--New York World. CAN a defeated candidate who has been "scratched" be said to be A famous entomologist discusses TA I recent number of the Atlantic Monthly the interesting and COMPANY lively novel question whether butter­ flies regularly migrate from north ta south, and back again, after the man­ ner of birds. That they are capable of prolonged flights cannot .fee di»* puted. They have been taken re­ peatedly hundredsof miles from land, "In many parts of the world'VIS* swarms of single species have BEEN seen moving steadily in A speciflc$i- rection, not always with the WIN&" The writer mentions especially the great swarms of the thistlfe butterfly which invaded Europe in 1879. They oushed as far north as Elnland, and were believed to have come from Africa. At present there ts no positive proof of a regular semi-annual migration north and south on the part of any species of butterfly, but the Atlantic writer mentions the splendid and fa­ miliar milkweed butterfly (Danaia Archippii.%) one of the largest and handsomest of North American in­ sects, as one of the species which ARE most likely to be found addicted to such a habit. "Within our knowledged it has spread from this continent over the JPaeiflc Ocean to Australia and Java* and eastwardly to the Atlantic bor­ ders of Europe, from England to PortUr gal and the Azores." As to the prob­ ability that it moves northward and southward with the season, the argu­ ment may LIE summarized thus: The milkweed butterfly is a dis­ tinctively tropical ins;ct, but is found every season in Canada, and has been credibly reported from Hudson Bay and beyond. It is ceitain that if it remains with us through the winter it must be in its butterfly stage--in other words it must hibernate. But most if not all of our hibernating butterflies have been found in their winter quarters, while the milkweed butterfly, larger and far more con­ spicuous, has never been'detected. Our ordinary hibernating butter­ flies in NEW England comes out in March, April, and early May, while the Archippus is never seen till June, and is then in fine livery, instead of being dull-colored and battered, as a butterfly that has hibernated almost invariably is. Butterflies of trtisspecieisare known to go south in the autumn. There numerous lecords of enormous flocks "containing myriads upon myriads of individuals, clustering at nightfall upon trees to such an extent as to change their color, and to bend the weaker twigs.". In short, our Atlantic contributor quotes with full approval the words of another naturalist: "There is a southward migration late in the season in congregated masses, and a northward dispersion early in the season through ISOLATED individuals."--Youth's COMPANION. ' . Good Example. .» r " " "I wish I had a smaller screw­ driver, father!" grumbled Jake Bab> soft. "I can't make this work: iCa too big for the screws." "Jake," said Mr. Babson, solemnly, "I'm terrible afraid you haven't got much fae'lty. if you had, you could make that screw-driver do, or else you'd find some other way to get them screws out without raisin' such a catouse. Have I ever told you 'bout old'Bijah Jenkins, the tinkerer?" "No, sir, I can't rec'llect anything 'BOUT him," replied Jake, after a aao* ment's reflection. "Well," said Mr. Babson, with a sigh of regret, "there was a man that had what you might ba safe to call fae'lty. He could right a clock and set her to goin' again in NO time; he could fix up a door-lock or a hinge that was out of kilter quicker'n a wink; he could pry things open, an' he could make 'em fast. He was a fust-class all-'round tinkerer. An' what d'you s'pose his tools was?" "Why." said Jake, glibly, "a ham­ mer and a chisel and a screw-driver and a gimlet and an awl and---" "You can stop right where you be," interrupted his father. "You wouldn't have ketched 'Bijah Jenkins burden in'himself with such a mess o' things as that Folks where he went gen'rally had a hammer, I calc'- late. If they didn't, he could make out with a stone. All he carried was a broken clothes-pin an' an old fork-- a stout one 'twas--AN1 a hens feather an' a bottle o' glue that he'D made himself." "Well, I swaney!" remarked Jake, whose amazement incapacitated him for further utterance. "Yes, that was every nameable thing he carried," repeated Mr. Bab­ son. "He could sorew an' unscrew with the clothes-pin, an' use it for a number o' other pupposes. He could pry with the fork, an' he could jab with it, an' bore a fa'r-sized hole. He could ile with the hen's feather, an' he could glue wifh it, an'kind o' smdoth things up gen'rally. I tell , you, Jake, he had fae'lty. "Now lets see i f vou can't make out to get along with that screw­ driver, such as 'tis," concluded Mr. Babsoot And Jake, not to be utterly routed by the posthumus fame of the old tinkerer, did. Cheerfol Prospect. A young graduate in the law visited a successful lawyer, and asked h!s ad­ vice as the be?t general course to pur­ sue in building up a practice "Above aH," said the old layweiv* "keep up your fees. Don't work cheap. IF you do, people will think you're good for nothing." ••But, sir, nobody will pay my fees, and I shall die of starvation." "Oh, well, you must expect to die for a while--but after that YOU'LI^L^M all right!" > • Not Sclf-Kvldent. It is best not to complain, tally to a cynical acquaintance. "Do vou known," said Mr. New- ?rad, "1 find that my college educa­ tion goes against UIE in my endeavors io get on IN the world?" "Verv l ikely ," said his friend, "but- ?vhydo you tell people that you have it? They never would find it out if you didn't mention it."--New .York Herald. ' . A MAN takes pride in IAYH&WTIAI' it mind of his own, and yet when he is angry he takes pleasure in givinv jomebody a piece of I W » R.•,? " " t " ".'"I ' * ... •• D.. H V \ / - . 'i!' %